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Re: How to print only specific pages using dvips?

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From: Dale Gold
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:45
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Quoted from <WVENABLE.93Jan19235117@attunga.stats.adelaide.edu.au> 
  by wvenable@attunga.stats.adelaide.edu.au (Bill Venables):
> >>>>> "Dale" == Dale Gold <dgold@basso.actrix.gen.nz> writes:
> 
> Dale> In Rokicki's AmigaTeX version of dvips there are these options:
> Dale> -p <start>	specifies 1st page to print. So -p 3 prints page 3.
> Dale> -n <pages>	number of pages to print.
> 
> In the versions of dvips I have (Sun Sparc, 5.493, 5.495) "-p 3" will start
> printing at the first page *that_is_numbered_page_3_by_TeX* in the
> document.  So if you have more than one page numbered "page 3" there seems
> to be no way to print a part of the document starting from a page 3 other
> than the first.  It would me more useful to have a system that used
> absolute page numbers rather than TeX created page numbers.

How about '-p 3.1' for the 2nd occurance of page 3?  Once again, that 
works on my version, and I guess mileage will vary with others.  Sorry 
I didn't mention that in the 1st posting.

Cheers,
Dale

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